Start hereEducation. Evidence. Shared expertise.
Expertise shared.
Trauma care
advanced.
A shared home for our courses, research and conversations. Connecting the people who care for patients from injury to recovery.
ROOTED IN SWITZERLANDOne shared purpose.From first response
to lasting recovery.
Choose your area of interest
Three course programmes. A continuing conversation.
01 / COURSEPolytrauma
Course
The whole patient. Every phase of care. Learn across disciplines.
Enter the course
22–23APRIL 2027 · ZURICH
02 / COURSESwiss Pelvic &
Acetabular
Pelvic and acetabular trauma. Explore the next course in Zurich.
Official course website
03 / COURSETraumaplasty
Course
Advanced fracture management around the geriatric hip and acetabulum.
26–27 August 2027 · Planned · Zurich
Explore the course
04 / EVIDENCEResearch &
Discussion
Pocket guides, recent papers and critical questions for everyday learning.
Explore the evidence
The Trauma Academy
Connected expertise.
Across the entire journey.
The questions that matter rarely belong to one specialty.
Trauma Academy brings our educational activities together: a foundation in polytrauma, focused learning in pelvic and acetabular injury, and the meeting point between trauma surgery and arthroplasty.
Research discussions and podcasts extend the learning beyond the course. Each programme keeps its own identity, with a shared commitment to clinical reasoning and the patient’s recovery.
Learn togetherPerspectives across disciplines.
Question the evidenceRead findings in their context.
Follow the patientFrom injury to lasting function.
Featured publication · ESTES · 2025
The European
White Book.
Polytrauma and Management of Severely Injured Patients
A shared framework for trauma systems, education and care from prevention to rehabilitation.
Edited by Roman Pfeifer, Frank Hildebrand, Tina Gaarder and Ingo Marzi.
Meet. Learn. Exchange.
Next stop, Zurich.
Two days of course learning, followed by the European trauma and emergency surgery congress.
ZURICH · SWITZERLANDECTES 2027 precongress course
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Swiss Pelvic & Acetabular
+ Polytrauma Course
Our next Polytrauma Course forms part of the Swiss Pelvic & Acetabular Course. Explore the organiser’s website for programme and registration updates.
Visit the course websiteECTES 2027– · Zurich
Explore the congressPLANNED · ZURICH26–27AUGUST 2027
The next Traumaplasty Course
Advanced fracture management around the geriatric hip and acetabulum.
Lectures, case discussions and hands-on wetlab training.
USZ & UZH Irchel · 08:30 both days · German / English
Research & discussion / Pocket guides
Key decisions.
One page at a time.
36 concise guides for trauma teams. Read, download or print for your next teaching session.
Browse all 36 guides
Adult trauma education · Source-linked · Updated 13 November 2026
Download all 36 guidesFrom the research desk
New papers.
Better questions.
Pelvic trauma algorithms: shared principles, local decisions
What 25 published pathways have in common—and why agreement is not the same as proof of effectiveness.
Read the discussionFix, replace, or combine?
Weighing early operative burden against later reconstruction in geriatric acetabular fractures.
Read the discussionThe Parkland pathway: the system behind the algorithm
Selective angioembolisation, definitive fixation and the importance of local resources.
Read the discussionSelected recent papers · Updated